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Ari Borazjanian
Ari is a interdisciplinary artist from Houston, Texas currently studying printmaking at UTSA in San Antonio, Texas. Ari’s work varies from sardonic mixed media portraits, highly detailed prints, to experimental video and installation works using an emphasis on critiquing archetypes and trauma through a lens of dark humor and contrasting bold colors.
Resume (PDF)
Work Samples (PDF)
The Victim, The Villian(s), the Voyer (2022) Woodblock print on fabric
Ant Pile (2021) lithograph and screenprint
New Lolita Theory (2020) digital painting
Diana the Huntress (2020) digital painting
4EVER (2024) mixed media painting
Date Night (2019) Linoblock print
Satanic Pristess (2019) reductive linolock print
Wavy Lines, Straight Vision (2019) watercolor and ink painting
MORE ABOUT THIS ARTIST
Artist Style: Visual Art: Collage, Contemporary, Dream Imagery/Ethereal, Icongraphic/Iconoclastic, Illustrative, Portraiture, Social Commentary
Artist Medium: Acrylic; Collage; Colored Pencil; Drawing Media; Fiber/Fabric; Watercolor; Ink
Artist Statement of Work
Tell us about your work (style, approach, philosophy, subject and/or theme):
My work explores feminine archetypes through a mixture of portraits, installations, and intricate mixed media pieces. I portray sardonic takes on trauma, love, and other general observations of life through brightly colored imagery with cartoonish compositions. As a femme presenting person of color I feel as though throughout my life I haven’t had many forms of valid representation that hasn’t stemmed from harmful stereotypes, my work sees to challenge that notion while still implementing playful elements to make my messages easily digestible underneath its sickly sweet exterior.
Culturally Specific Art Category
Select Culturally Specific Art Category:: Black or African American, Middle Eastern/North African